Contact! The story of the early birds
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1968]. Quarto, rust-coloured cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, [xvi], 264 pp., frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout, four appendices included. Ex-library copy. Spine ends and corners a little bumped, gilt lettering on spine slightly faded, light spotting on edges of text block, light foxing on endpapers, small library stamp on front free endpaper and top edge of text block, dust-jacket is not the original. Otherwise a very good copy. An anecdotal account of the romantic era when man first dared the miracle of flight, from the Wright brothers to the outbreak of World War One, written by American foreign service officer and ambassador Henry Serrano Villard. Item #5010
An ex-libris plate on the front paste-down endpaper reads: "Griffith University Library James Ramsey Conaghan Bequest"
Price (AUD): $60.00